Located at the juncture of two important railway lines in the northwestern corner of Anhui province, the dusty and rusty city of Bozhou is the capital of the Chinese medicinal herb industry. The... »

Pharmacy Museums, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by mrobscurity

Massive ice sculptures loom over visitors bundled up against the -15 degree Celsius weather, paired with giant snow carvings a few miles away looking down on the festivities of the Harbin... »

Strange Statues, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by re_nakaba

The Foraminifera Sculpture Park in Guangzhou Province officially opened in December 2009. Marine geologist Bilal Haq, of the National Science Foundation, got the idea for the sculpture park a... »

Natural History | Edited by Caspar Henderson

The Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, or Puxian in Chinese, is said to have meditated on Mount Emei, and has thus been dubbed protector of the area and patron Buddha of the monasteries in the region.... »

Strange Statues, Curious Places of Worship, Giant Buddhas | Edited by Clinton

The Hanging Temple, located about 60 km southwest of Datong, China in Shanxi province, is one of the world's forgotten wonders. Clinging to a crag of Hengshan mountain, in apparent defiance of... »

Rites and Rituals, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Josh and Dylan

Just 10 miles from downtown Beijing and Tienanmen Square, China's World Park gives visitors a chance to see more than 100 of the planet's best known landmarks -- including the Great Pyramids, the... »

Small Worlds and Model Towns | Edited by Beth Gherlein

Housed in a sprawling suburban campus fifty miles west of Shanghai, China's first sex museum has been titillating visitors since 1999. The museum's main collection is divided into several... »

Museums and Collections | Edited by Beth Gherlein

At 71 meters high, the Leshan Buddha takes the prize for largest Buddha statue in the world. Carved into a cliff overlooking the Min and Dadu Rivers in central Sichuan, the Buddha is said to... »

Strange Statues | Edited by Beth Gherlein

Buddhism came to China along the Silk Road from India in the early 400s. In the Shanxi region of central China, the monk Tan Yao and other Buddhists began carving sculpture-filled caves around the... »

Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by M Rebekah Otto

A kind of horrific wonder, Guiyu is town covered beneath a mound of e-waste - piles of computers, monitors, and cell phones. Moore's law dictates the computing power of each new generation of... »

Disaster Areas | Edited by stanestane and michelle